It Ought To Be In Pictures

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jeff in Korea at 7:04 pm on Thursday, July 1, 2004

Despite the governmental idiocy that continues to fill this country in the wake of the Kim Son Il murder, there are other things going on in the world.

As I was driving down the road the other day, I came up on this car. I am not sure what this means or why it is on the car, but I found it amusing.

On my way to lunch one day, this shirt caught my eye. Its message of optimism in this recently dark society was appealing to me. I guess if you are getting a virus, it may as well be a sweet, happy virus…and make it ice-cream flavored.

On a more serious note, If any of you, particularly you readers in Pusan, have ever had a chance to go to “Song’s” on Texas Street and sample the best cheeseburgers in Asia or to partake of any other food that you can think of and explain how to make, you may want to know that Ms. Song has closed up her shop (hopefully temporarily). She was diagnosed last week with liver cancer and is undergoing treatment at a hospital here in Pusan.

God bless you Ms. Song, and get well soon!

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Comment by Dan Mehlhorn

2 July 2004 @ 2:42 am

If you have the chance, pass on my Get Well wishes to Mrs. Song. My Brenda (Sung Mee) loves Cheeseburgers. When she visits Korea, I’d like to direct her to shops like Mrs. Song’s.

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Comment by elizabeth

2 July 2004 @ 5:59 pm

Mrs. Song\’s always been cheery, entertaining to working girls of whatever persuasion, and generous with her rum, too!
I hope she gets well soon.

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Comment by Silly Sally

2 July 2004 @ 6:41 pm

Jeff,

As you can see censorship is fun and necessary to protect your arbitrary interests. So don\\\’t be too hard on the natives with their hamfisted censorship: especially since you have gone native yourself.

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Comment by Dan Mehlhorn

3 July 2004 @ 3:15 am

Prodigy isn’t the major ISP in the US because of Liberal censorship. AOL was a struggling concern in the early 90s until it got a rush of former Prodigy subscribers.

Too bad governments don’t learn from history.

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Comment by KAL858

3 July 2004 @ 1:40 pm

ahhhh dont it feel good to shut people up jeff.

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Comment by Al-Qorea

3 July 2004 @ 4:27 pm

jeff, let the hatred run free. stop all voices but the noble Qorean jeff. good.

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Comment by Jae

5 July 2004 @ 12:14 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEFF!!! :D

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Comment by Jeff in Korea

5 July 2004 @ 12:18 am

Thanks Jae!

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Comment by Ari Sharp

7 July 2004 @ 2:05 pm

Very cute. One of the downsides of English becoming the near-universal language is that those who can’t speak it will feel isolated and left behind. Or making silly t-shirts with phrases that make no sense. Still, their English is better than my Korean. If I was making Korean t-shirts, then the only Korean word that would get a run would be ‘Kimchi’. Not very imaginative.

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Comment by Timo

10 November 2006 @ 5:13 am

 My kiwi friend Sonya wrote me:
“Did you hear the news about Song? I had a brief email from Casey a few weeks ago saying she had passed away up in Seoul .
Really sad..and I hope she didn t suffer too much.. Whenever I think of Korea I think about the times at ‘Songs” and all the interesting people who passed through. “

I quoted your comment at:
to the memory of Ms. Song without your permission.

Lao Nei

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